The Scarborough storm and flood, August 1857: the Cinderella of the record book

The Scarborough storm of August 1857

“…Colin Clark asserts in his recent article that the Scarborough storm and flood of August 1857 should no longer be regarded as the Cinderella of the record book (Clark, ). Unfortunately, the evidence he presents – and, as importantly, other archive evidence available but not presented in his paper – provides considerably less definitive support for a reassessment of the single exceptional rainfall total than even Cinderella's legendary glass slipper.…”